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thewildsnail

🕸️🍁⛰️🌌 I love environmental literature, fairytale retellings, medieval, and microhistory books Libby fan! Favorite authors: Octavia Butler, Holly Black, Mary Shelley, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mona Awad

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Fairy Tale Retellings

British & Irish Classic Literature

My Taste

Parable of the Sower

This is How You Lose the Time War

Memoirs of a Revolutionary

All's Well

Never Let Me Go

Reading...

A Wizard of Earthsea

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thewildsnail's Shelf

TBR (To Be Read)

Sunrise on the Reaping

The Blood of the Vampire (Valancourt Classics)

The Gilda Stories

The Odyssey

Absolution

Between Two Fires

Deathless

Land of Milk and Honey

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Microhistory books that feel like fiction

by thewildsnail

Nonfiction history books focusing on a specific topic or area but follow a narrative structure

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

The Return of Martin Guerre

The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease

A Poisoned Past: The Life and Times of Margarida de Portu, a Fourteenth-Century Accused Poisoner (Thinking Historically)

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

The Return of Martin Guerre

Gothic Literature 🏰💀👻

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I like my castles cold, my moors windswept, and my heroines swooning.

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